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Many People Refuse the Free Windows 10 Upgrade, Here’s Why

17 points by type0 10y ago

dmfdmf 10y ago
FWIW, I am done with MS, I don't want to be the product. Win7 is my last MS OS so I am moving to Linux in 2020 unless Win7 support is extended.
- boterock 10y ago
  You can always move earlier, I moved to Linux for work and only keep Windows for videogames and couldn't be happier.
  - dmfdmf 10y ago
    2020 is my drop-dead date. I have some older XP laptops that I shutdown that I want to use to experiment with Linux. If things go well I might jump ship sooner.
f_allwein 10y ago
I just did not want to try whether my old 2GB netbook would actually run Win 10. It's painfully slow on Win 7 as it is. Also, I remember hearing that Microsoft told manufacturers not to allow more than 2GB in netbooks as they might have cannibalised the laptop market otherwise. So in that sense, it's their fault I don't upgrade.
- dmfdmf 10y ago
  Win7 has been slow since Win10 release. Personally, I don't think that was an accident.
- yuhong 10y ago
  There is still a 32-bit version of Win10. When I run Win10 in a VM, I used the 32-bit version and sometimes tried NTVDM. Needless to say I quickly found out it don't work with the new console and the error message was cryptic (last time I checked).
pfarnsworth 10y ago
I'm still on Windows 7. Windows 8 was such a disaster that if Windows 10 has any pieces of Windows 8 in it, I don't want any part of it. And then, after all of those disastrous forced upgrades, I simply don't trust Microsoft anymore. I'm on Windows 7 until I somehow accidentally upgrade.
shepardrtc 10y ago
I really like Windows 10 on my Surface. But on my 4 year old Samsung with heavily customized Samsung-built software that controls much of the functionality of the laptop, I can't risk moving to Windows 10 and not having any of it work. And there's no chance Samsung will update it.
reitanqild 10y ago
As a generally happy Windows 10 users I still think Windows have some important decisions to be done. 1.) Make very clear, very strict rules about what all the collected data: who can see what, what can it be used for, how long before what is tossed away. 2.) Reign in creative businesspeople: when I start to get ads on the login screen of my Windows Pro licensed machine without even being asked then somebody needs to learn about eating and having cake.

17 points by type0 10y ago

FWIW, I am done with MS, I don't want to be the product. Win7 is my last MS OS so I am moving to Linux in 2020 unless Win7 support is extended.

boterock 10y ago
You can always move earlier, I moved to Linux for work and only keep Windows for videogames and couldn't be happier.
- dmfdmf 10y ago
  2020 is my drop-dead date. I have some older XP laptops that I shutdown that I want to use to experiment with Linux. If things go well I might jump ship sooner.

f_allwein 10y ago

I just did not want to try whether my old 2GB netbook would actually run Win 10. It's painfully slow on Win 7 as it is. Also, I remember hearing that Microsoft told manufacturers not to allow more than 2GB in netbooks as they might have cannibalised the laptop market otherwise. So in that sense, it's their fault I don't upgrade.

dmfdmf 10y ago
Win7 has been slow since Win10 release. Personally, I don't think that was an accident.
yuhong 10y ago
There is still a 32-bit version of Win10. When I run Win10 in a VM, I used the 32-bit version and sometimes tried NTVDM. Needless to say I quickly found out it don't work with the new console and the error message was cryptic (last time I checked).

pfarnsworth 10y ago

I'm still on Windows 7. Windows 8 was such a disaster that if Windows 10 has any pieces of Windows 8 in it, I don't want any part of it. And then, after all of those disastrous forced upgrades, I simply don't trust Microsoft anymore. I'm on Windows 7 until I somehow accidentally upgrade.

shepardrtc 10y ago

I really like Windows 10 on my Surface. But on my 4 year old Samsung with heavily customized Samsung-built software that controls much of the functionality of the laptop, I can't risk moving to Windows 10 and not having any of it work. And there's no chance Samsung will update it.

reitanqild 10y ago

As a generally happy Windows 10 users I still think Windows have some important decisions to be done. 1.) Make very clear, very strict rules about what all the collected data: who can see what, what can it be used for, how long before what is tossed away. 2.) Reign in creative businesspeople: when I start to get ads on the login screen of my Windows Pro licensed machine without even being asked then somebody needs to learn about eating and having cake.